Scores are global-scale research estimates. R marks work in progress; none are travel advice.
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A low-confidence first reference using United Arab Emirates-level structural indicators and the current official armed-conflict advisory; no Dubai-local crime rate is implied.
Safrom's citywide research estimate is 76/100. Higher scores mean safer on the model's scale. Evidence as of . Confidence: D.
131 areas with estimates; 1 additional boundaries without estimates. Area evidence as of .
Overall-only public-alpha estimate. Community variation is a conservative seven-kilometre proximity signal from 12 community-mapped police and fire-station points inside the current Dubai community boundaries, anchored to Dubai's global city score. Fire stations receive a small transparent capacity weight. OpenStreetMap facility coverage is sparse, uneven and not an authoritative government register; proximity is not response time, performance, crime incidence or travel risk. The model ignores roads, traffic, staffing, equipment, availability, incident demand and hazards, while centroid proximity can misrepresent large outer communities. Only infrastructure-response access varies; crime and other dimensions do not vary by community, no day/night difference is inferred, and this is not an official community ranking. Two open source boundaries remain excluded. Al Selal/Madinat Latifa is retained only as a known unscored boundary: the existing facility snapshot was filtered to the old 131 communities and cannot establish complete evidence for the recovered area; not travel advice.
Boundaries: OpenStreetMap contributors · Dubai mapped administrative communities (Open Data Commons Open Database License 1.0).
Batch-generated global-scale research estimates. Local signals are used when available; otherwise documented country-level baselines and official current-condition guidance provide a low-confidence first reference. Not travel advice.
alerts are not long-term baseline risk; event footprint may not equal traveler exposure; alert severity cannot be copied directly into Safrom score
country-level only; humanitarian risk framing differs from traveler exposure; composite inputs can overlap Safrom dimensions; current event conditions require separate signals
country-level only; reporting and justice-system differences; latest year differs by country; not traveler-specific
country-level only; availability does not measure emergency accessibility; latest year differs by country; distribution within a country is hidden
country-level only; collection is not annual for every country; some values are modeled estimates; resident exposure differs from traveler exposure
does not isolate Dubai; U.S.-traveler perspective; Level 3 is a current-condition warning rather than a structural crime score; conditions and flight disruption can change quickly
country-level only; modeled perceptions rather than traveler incidents; cannot represent neighborhood variation or current events; confidence intervals must not be discarded